bald-faced

bald-faced
a) having white markings on the face.
b) shameless and undisguised; barefaced

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  • Bald-faced — a. Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bald-faced — adj making no attempt to hide the fact that you know you are saying or doing something wrong = ↑barefaced ▪ a bald faced lie …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • bald-faced — adjective only before noun used for emphasizing that someone who does something bad is not ashamed or does not try to do it secretly: BLATANT: a bald faced lie …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • bald-faced — adjective 1. (of animals) having white markings on the face • Similar to: ↑faced 2. unrestrained by convention or propriety an audacious trick to pull a barefaced hypocrite the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim Los Angeles… …   Useful english dictionary

  • bald-faced — adjective Date: 1943 barefaced < a bald faced lie > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bald-faced — adj. Bald faced is used with these nouns: ↑lie …   Collocations dictionary

  • bald-faced — UK / US adjective [only before noun] mainly American used for emphasizing that someone who does something bad is not ashamed or does not try to do it secretly a bald faced lie …   English dictionary

  • Bald-faced hornet — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda …   Wikipedia

  • Bald-faced widgeon — Widgeon Widg eon, n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of several species of fresh water ducks, especially those belonging to the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bald-faced hornet — Dolichovespula maculata Dolichovespula maculata Systematik Klasse: Insekten (Insecta) Ordnung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bald-faced rail — Rozenbergo plikaakė vištelė statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas atitikmenys: lot. Gymnocrex rosenbergii angl. bald faced rail vok. Rosenbergralle, f rus. сулавесский гологлазый пастушок, m pranc. râle de Rosenberg, m ryšiai: platesnis terminas …   Paukščių pavadinimų žodynas

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